﻿On 
  the 
  Bird 
  indicated 
  by 
  the 
  Greek 
  ' 
  AXkvmv. 
  215 
  

  

  cases 
  are 
  even 
  extinct. 
  Thus, 
  Cyanorhamphus 
  ulietanus 
  (Gm.) 
  

   appears 
  to 
  be 
  known 
  by 
  only 
  one 
  specimen 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  and 
  

   one 
  (the 
  type) 
  in 
  the 
  Vienna 
  Museum^ 
  and 
  has 
  never 
  been 
  heard 
  

   of 
  since 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  Latham 
  ; 
  C. 
  erythronotus 
  (Gm.) 
  was 
  seen 
  

   again 
  and 
  last 
  in 
  four 
  or 
  five 
  specimens 
  only 
  by 
  Lieutenant 
  

   Marolles 
  during 
  a 
  stay 
  at 
  Tahiti 
  of 
  twenty 
  months 
  ending 
  in 
  

   1844!(Finsch/Papageien/ 
  ii. 
  268); 
  Coriphilus 
  taitianus 
  (Gm.) 
  

   is 
  said 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Garrett, 
  a 
  former 
  collector 
  of 
  the 
  Godeffroy 
  

   Museum, 
  to 
  have 
  become 
  extinct 
  in 
  the 
  islands 
  of 
  Hualieine, 
  

   Raiatea, 
  and 
  Tahea 
  (Cat. 
  Mus. 
  Godeffr. 
  1874, 
  v. 
  p. 
  xvii), 
  but 
  

   it 
  still 
  occurs 
  on 
  many 
  other 
  islands 
  ; 
  neither 
  has 
  anything 
  

   been 
  heard 
  of 
  Turdiis 
  ulietensis, 
  Gm., 
  since 
  Forster^s 
  time, 
  

   nor 
  of 
  Rallus 
  tahitiensis, 
  Gm. 
  But 
  an 
  excellent 
  law 
  of 
  the 
  

   French, 
  forbidding 
  the 
  destruction 
  of 
  birds 
  in 
  the 
  islands 
  over 
  

   which 
  they 
  have 
  authority, 
  may 
  perhaps 
  have 
  enabled 
  these 
  

   species 
  to 
  survive 
  up 
  to 
  the 
  present. 
  

  

  For 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  birds 
  of 
  the 
  Gilbert 
  Islands, 
  see 
  

   Dr. 
  Finsch's 
  letter 
  in 
  'The 
  Ibis,' 
  1880, 
  pp. 
  433, 
  434, 
  to 
  

   which 
  only 
  Gallus 
  bankiva, 
  var. 
  ?, 
  can 
  be 
  added. 
  

  

  Since 
  this 
  paper 
  was 
  commenced, 
  we 
  have 
  annexed 
  the 
  

   neighbouring 
  Ellice 
  atolls. 
  The 
  only 
  notes 
  on 
  the 
  birds 
  of 
  

   these 
  islands 
  with 
  which 
  I 
  am 
  acquainted 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  

   a 
  short 
  paper 
  by 
  Dr. 
  R. 
  B. 
  Sharpe 
  in 
  P. 
  Z. 
  S. 
  1878, 
  pp. 
  271- 
  

   273, 
  with 
  a 
  communication 
  adjoined 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Whitmee. 
  

   The 
  following 
  eight 
  species 
  are 
  enumerated 
  : 
  — 
  Ardea 
  sacra, 
  

   Gm. 
  ; 
  Anous 
  C(Bruleus 
  (F. 
  D. 
  Bennett); 
  Anous 
  stolidus 
  

   (Linn.) 
  ; 
  Anous 
  leucocapillus,G\d. 
  ; 
  Sterna 
  anasthefa 
  (Scop.); 
  

   Gygis 
  Candida 
  (Gm.) 
  ; 
  Fregata 
  aquila 
  (Linn.) 
  ; 
  and 
  a 
  Car- 
  

   pophaga, 
  which 
  was 
  believed 
  by 
  the 
  collector, 
  Herr 
  Fritz 
  

   Hansen, 
  to 
  be 
  C. 
  pacifica. 
  It 
  is, 
  perhaj^s, 
  more 
  likely 
  to 
  be 
  

   C. 
  oceanica. 
  Lesson. 
  

  

  XVIII. 
  — 
  On 
  the 
  Bird 
  indicated 
  by 
  the 
  Greek 
  'AXkvcov. 
  

   By 
  H. 
  B. 
  Tristram, 
  D.D., 
  F.R.S. 
  

  

  A 
  SHORT 
  time 
  ago 
  my 
  friend 
  Dr. 
  W. 
  Greenwell, 
  F.R.S. 
  , 
  

   showed 
  me 
  an 
  archaic 
  Greek 
  coin 
  which 
  bore 
  on 
  its 
  obverse 
  

   the 
  figure 
  of 
  a 
  cow 
  with 
  a 
  bird 
  on 
  its 
  back. 
  He 
  asked 
  me 
  

  

  q2 
  

  

  